Feel Like Complaining

For those of you with a wonderlust spirit, this is a fun blog to follow. His name is Darby Roach and he lived in Seattle, Wa., before he sold or gave away all of his worldly goods to ride his bike around the world. There seems to be no reason for it except for the adventure. He's now 62 and he'll make most of the trip by himself, which he estimates will take 3 years. He did have a partner for the first week or so, but now he's on his own. You can follow his daily posts written from his Ipad and when he can catch WiFi. I found him through a local news station,  where his daughter is a reporter. He rode through town at the near beginning of his journey and I got hooked on reading about his travels. Before this trip he biked a lot of the areas we have vacationed at, so it's cool to see the perspective of the bikers we often pass on the road. You can see the route he's going to take and since his trek is only about 3 weeks in, you can start following him now and e...

Who doesn't like to look at a good crime map ? Especially when you can see what kind of stuff goes on in your own neighborhood. This is a new site, still in its Beta stage, so most cities aren't even on it yet. I checked out my town and the first thing I see is total crimes in the area. Then as I mouse over different areas, such as zip codes, I see crimes per area. When I click on my particular zip code I find 423 crimes in that area. My area now pops up in a new window and I can see lots of stats on the side; the difference between my zip code and the entire city, most dangerous neighborhoods and individual crimes with dates and cross streets. Mmmmm, let's look at my neighborhood now. I can zoom into the corner I live on and see that this particular corner looks pretty good. But at just the other corner of the block there have been 5 crimes in that area. And there are many crimes just southwest of me. Crap, I can't move an inch or I could be robbed, assaulted, van...

While I was on vacation and surfing through blogs I found a link to a site where you can turn your blog into a book . I thought that was a great idea. You can choose your design for the book, cover photo, any dedication, title and whether you want hard or soft cover. You can even choose the range of posts you want and if you want the comments added or not. The cost is figured by the amount of pages you have. I did a trial run on just the first year of my blog and it would cost around $31.00 bucks. I told my husband about it and he said "Why would anyone want to do that?" Well I guess I'm vain enough to do it. When I get old and feeble and either give up my blog or delete it, I will be able to read it and think, "Damn, I was funny ." I would only get one copy-for myself. I surely couldn't give them to family and acquaintances because I write about them. It wouldn't make very good gifts for Christmas. And my husband and daughter probably wouldn'...

Our local news has a neat little daily bit called "Cool Clicks". Colleen will give us a daily cool click that makes life easier or just plain fun. I might start posting more of them from now on. If you go to I Write Like and paste in an entire blog post (or anything you write) it will analyze the type of famous writer you most write like. I used ten random posts and came up with a variety of writers. Cory Doctorow 4 Stephen King 2 Mario Puzo 1 Charles Dickens 1 Agatha Christie 1 David Foster Wallace 1 I don't believe for a minute that I can be compared to Charles Dickens or Stephen King but that Cory guy sounds cool and I should check him out. He must be a sarcastic witty guy. So go give it a try and let me know who You most write like.